Object permanence
2005, 2010, 2015, 2020.
I’m on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel Picks and Shovels. Catch me in NYC on WEDNESDAY (Feb 26) with JOHN HODGMAN and at PENN STATE on THURSDAY (Feb 27). More tour dates here. Mail-order signed copies from LA’s Diesel Books.
#20yrsago iPod acoustic hack: what it means https://web.archive.org/web/20050301014904/http://vitanuova.loyalty.org/weblog/nb.cgi/view/vitanuova/2005/02/25/1
#15yrsago Golden-age computer manual encourages you to break DRM, rants against EULAs https://www.ironicsans.com/2010/02/they_dont_make_computer_manual.html
#15yrsago ACTA leak: Now we know who is against transparency — USA, Korea, Singapore, Denmark https://web.archive.org/web/20100227072335/http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4819/125/
#10yrsago Grim meathook future, Singapore style https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2015/02/a-different-cluetrain.html
#10yrsago Billboards tell the stories of professionals who can’t afford London anymore https://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/gallery/19402/0/london-is-changing
#10yrsago Don’t argue about vaccination with Rob Schneider if you value your sanity https://web.archive.org/web/20150221073129/https://www.10news.com/news/local-politician-goes-toe-to-toe-with-deuce-bigalow-actor-over-proposed-changes-to-vaccination-law
#10yrsago Yahoo’s security boss faces down NSA director over crypto ban https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/02/yahoo-exec-goes-mano-a-mano-with-nsa-director-over-crypo-backdoors/
#10yrsago UK Tory MP says astrology would improve NHS health outcomes https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/feb/25/astrology-help-nhs-claim-conservative-mp-david-tredinnick
#5yrsago New podcast about the history of Gopher and adversarial interoperability https://pluralistic.net/2020/02/25/pluralistic-your-daily-link-dose-25-feb-2020/#internetducttape
#5yrsago Private equity looters underperform the S&P 500 https://pluralistic.net/2020/02/25/pluralistic-your-daily-link-dose-25-feb-2020/#extraordinaryclaims
#5yrsago Bloomberg’s Plan B: buying the DNC https://pluralistic.net/2020/02/25/pluralistic-your-daily-link-dose-25-feb-2020/#plutewatch
#5yrsago Cops’ qualified immunity https://pluralistic.net/2020/02/25/pluralistic-your-daily-link-dose-25-feb-2020/#moralhazard
#5yrsago Russian Multiplication https://pluralistic.net/2020/02/25/pluralistic-your-daily-link-dose-25-feb-2020/#mathski
